The nice folks at Arlington, Virginia-based Lovitt Records have been bringing the rock to the people since 1995.
Bats and Mice
Featuring former members of two great post-punk groups The Sleepytime Trio and Four Hundred Years, Bats and Mice plots dark, windy courses over empty seas with spidery, melancholy, lonesome-making guitar compositions.
The Black Sea
Featuring members of Frodus and Fugazi, The Black Sea offers a darkly minimal, powerfully rhythmic new permutation of the classic DC hardcore sound.
Bluebird
This irresponsible emotional mayhem may incite those more sonically challenged. This bird sings something more intense than rock, cut with vital sound experimentation.
The Cassettes
In their new venture these former members of DC hardcore bands like Frodus and The Impossible Five channel the spirit of the late '70s power pop movement with blissfully uncomplicated tunes that lift the heart and rock the body.
Dame Fate
Washington DC all-female trio Dame Fate creates sweeping pieces of shimmering, elegant noirish rock beauty, walking a tightrope between spectral fragmentary pop and muscular heavy rock.
Engine Down
Dramatic expressions staggering deliberately between splitting hardcore fits and more melodic episodes. Ferocious yet fertile, Engine Down will surprise and delight you.
Fin Fang Foom
Chapel Hill trio Fin Fang Foom draws from a large and varied palette of atmospheres and textures to produce expansive, baroque post-punk.
Four Hundred Years
Virginia's Four Hundred Years create electric, beautiful hardcore filled with blistering emotional upheavals inspired by youth and confusion.
Maximillian Colby
Though little known outside their native Virginia, Maximillian Colby were nonetheless a hugely influential sonic force, bridging the gap between Slint and the Gravity Records sound. Members went on to form Sleepytime Trio, the Rah Bras, and Bats and Mice.
Milemarker
Energetic and energizing, Milemarker may inspire you to start your own cultural revolution. This is assured and thoughtful hardcore seasoned with New Wave keyboards. Rock and riot!
Rah Bras
This is classic "Musique Nouveau," which when loosely translated means essentially "audio disorientation." You want cutting edge? The Rah Bras will take you far, far beyond cutting edge, all the way to their own glamorous interpretation of hell.
Sleepytime Trio
Like robots on the verge of rebellion, Sleepytime Trio come armed with
guitars set on shock and the audio aggression just may render you
defenseless. Humans, prepare for invasion.
